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A clean and healthy environment is required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Efforts to counter the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste must be ramped up in order to truly transform societies and economies for everyone, everywhere.
About the United Nations Environment Programme - UNEP
UNEP – your partner for people and planet. This booklet presents an overview of UNEP – its mission, vision, strategy and action for tackling the triple planetary crisis.It chronicles environmental highlights from the past five decades, shows how UNEP works in partnerships, and explains why it is crucial that funding provided to UNEP keeps pace with the growing expectations placed on the ...
UNEP Annual Report
UNEP analysis released ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) brought into sharp focus the scale of the climate crisis and offered policymakers a suite of solutions.. The Emission Gap Report 2023: Broken Record – Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again) showed that current climate pledges put the Earth on track to warm by 2.5-2.9°C this century, well ...
Funding and partnerships | UNEP - UN Environment Programme
In addition, e armarked funds (funds given or "earmarked" to a specific project, theme, country etc.) enable UNEP to expand and replicate the programme in more countries and with more partners. Main providers of earmarked funds include the Global Environment Facility, the Green Climate Fund and the European Commission.. Around the world, UNEP works in partnerships with governments, the ...
Climate action | UNEP - UN Environment Programme
UNEP provides evidence-based data to inform policy decisions, collaborates with sectors for low-carbon transitions, provides climate finance mechanisms and aids countries in adaptation and mitigation efforts.
Publications & data - UNEP - UN Environment Programme
The UN Environment Programme offers more than 15,000 items, from real-time data tools and platforms to key reports, publications, fact sheets, interactives and more.
UNEP Executive Director statement on the closing of COP29
2 days ago · Climate crunch time is here. COP29 has delivered a hard-fought deal. This is at a time when science tells us that without action, climate impacts will only intensify further. COP29 has now secured a foundation on which we must now rapidly build. However, we must be clear, ambition and promises are ...
Decisive fifth session of negotiations on a global plastic pollution ...
1 day ago · Busan, 25 November 2024 – The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5), opened today in Busan, Republic of Korea. The session aims to conclude negotiations and finalize the text of the agreement. The session, which takes place from 25 November to 1 ...
A thousand days of negotiation, a thousand plastic pollution
1 day ago · Opening address of UNEP Executive Director, at the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) in Busan, Republic of Korea, to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.
Global Resources Outlook 2024 | UNEP - UN Environment …
The world is in the midst of a triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution and waste. The global economy is consuming ever more natural resources, while the world is not on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. The world is in the midst of a triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution and waste.